Anaximander's Book, the Earliest Known Geographical Treatise
Author : William Arthur Heidel
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Page : 64 pages
File Size : 13,9 MB
Release : 1921
Category : Geography
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Author : William Arthur Heidel
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Page : 64 pages
File Size : 13,9 MB
Release : 1921
Category : Geography
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Author : Walter Woodburn Hyde
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Page : 3 pages
File Size : 14,56 MB
Release : 1923
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Author : William Arthur Heidel
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Page : 50 pages
File Size : 36,40 MB
Release : 1921
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Author : Andrew Gregory
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 47,92 MB
Release : 2016-02-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1472506251
Anaximander, the sixth-century BCE philosopher of Miletus, is often credited as being the instigator of both science and philosophy. The first recorded philosopher to posit the idea of the boundless cosmos, he was also the first to attempt to explain the origins of the world and humankind in rational terms. Anaximander's philosophy encompasses theories of justice, cosmogony, geometry, cosmology, zoology and meteorology. Anaximander: A Re-assessment draws together these wide-ranging threads into a single, coherent picture of the man, his worldview and his legacy to the history of thought. Arguing that Anaximander's statements are both apodeictic and based on observation of the world around him, Andrew Gregory examines how Anaximander's theories can all be construed in such a way that they are consistent with and supportive of each other. This includes the tenet that the philosophical elements of Anaximander's thought (his account of the apeiron, the extant fragment) can be harmonised to support his views on the natural world. The work further explores how these theories relate to early Greek thought and in particular conceptions of theogony and meterology in Hesiod and Homer.
Author : Dirk L. Couprie
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 45,54 MB
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791487784
Promoting a new, broadly interdisciplinary horizon for future studies in early Greek philosophy, Dirk L. Couprie, Robert Hahn, and Gerard Naddaf establish the cultural context in which Anaximander's thought developed and in which the origins of Greek philosophy unfolded in its earliest stages. In order to better understand Anaximander's achievement, the authors call our attention to the historical, social, political, technological, cosmological, astronomical, and observational contexts of his thought. Anaximander in Context brings to the forefront of modern debates the importance of cultural context, and the indispensability of images to clarify ancient ideologies.
Author : James S. Romm
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 21,65 MB
Release : 2019-07-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0691201706
For the Greeks and Romans the earth's farthest perimeter was a realm radically different from what they perceived as central and human. The alien qualities of these "edges of the earth" became the basis of a literary tradition that endured throughout antiquity and into the Renaissance, despite the growing challenges of emerging scientific perspectives. Here James Romm surveys this tradition, revealing that the Greeks, and to a somewhat lesser extent the Romans, saw geography not as a branch of physical science but as an important literary genre.
Author : William Keith Chambers Guthrie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 44,9 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521294201
The most striking merits of Guthrie's work are his mastery of a tremendous range of ancient literature and modern scholarship.
Author : Daniel A. Machiela
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 11,64 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9004168141
The so-called Genesis Apocryphon (1Q20) from Qumran Cave 1 has suffered from decades of neglect, due in large part to its poor state of preservation. As part of a resurgent scholarly interest in the Apocryphon, and its prominent position among the Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls, this volume presents a fresh transcription, translation, and exstenive textual notes drawing on close study of the original manuscript, all available photographs, and previous publications. In addition, a detailed analysis of columns 13-15 and their relation to the oft-cited parallel in the Book of Jubilees reveals a number of ways in which the two works differ, thereby highlighting several distinctive features of the Genesis Apocryphon. The result is a reliable text edition and a fuller understanding of the message conveyed by this fragmentary but fascinating retelling of Genesis.
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Page : 674 pages
File Size : 10,43 MB
Release : 1921
Category : Classical philology
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Page : 556 pages
File Size : 28,95 MB
Release : 1921
Category : Electronic journals
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Includes section "Recent publications."